Thursday, February 26, 2009

Ow Selene, learn to control your own mind!

Ah, Fantastic Four Annual 1999... Famous for several things: first it featured magnificent artwork by José Ladronn, it also introduced us to the sensational character find of 1999: Mechamage... Who? Erm... just google. This two-fisted tale of terror ended with the founding of the Shadow Hunters... Who? Sigh...Don't bother, they're never heard from again, but they were meant to be a new demon-hunting team consisting of Daimon Hellstrom, Margali Szardos, Alyssa Moy and the Mechamage...

Anyways, the story so far: Claremont decides to use another of his favourite old X-men characters: Selene. The former Black Queen of the Hellfire Club is now in league with the demonic entity known as Blackheart. As part of a plot too dense to even begin to explain, Fantastic Four associate Alyssa Moy gets blown into a mystic coma which causes the FF to seek out powerful magic wielders to remedy Moy's condition... But Selene has dark servants working for her... take a look...

Ahhh, 'stolen his soul'... a mind control classic! Before the annual was done, the Fantastic Four themselves almost get taken over by demonic entities... Of course, it wouldn't be a Claremont penned tale without that!